Edmund Burke: “It is putting things into the position of an ugly alternative, into which I hope in God they never will be put.”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.